66 Teamwork Quotes To Inspire Collaboration And Creativity

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Positive world change is seldom achieved by one person; more often than not, amazing things happen when like-minded people are committed to a singular goal. Read through this collection of teamwork quotes and sayings and choose the one that inspires your journey toward

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Best Teamwork Quotes

Vince Lombardi Teamwork Quote

Southern Living


  • Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi
  • Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. – Andrew Carnegie
  • We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. – Jean-Francois Cope
  • The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. – Phil Jackson
  • The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. – James Cash Penney
  • None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quote About Teamwork

Southern Living


  • I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. –Mother Teresa
  • Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus. – Simon Mainwaring
  • I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. – Mother Teresa
  • Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction. – Justin Sewell
  • If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. – African Proverb
  • Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth. – Amit Ray
  • The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. — Margaret Carty
  • A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues. – Lee Iacocca

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Teamwork Quotes About Success

Michael Jordan Teamwork Quote

Southern Living


  • Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. – Michael Jordan
  • Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
  • If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford
  • Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. – Mattie Stepanek
  • I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. – Napolean Hill
  • The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. – Babe Ruth

Secret of Teamwork Quote

Southern Living


  • Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results. – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  • The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt
  • So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. – Baha’U’Llah
  • There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. – George Shinn
  • The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
  • A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take. – Barbara Glacel
  • Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people. – Steve Jobs

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Short Teamwork Quotes

Helen Keller Working Together Quote

Southern Living


  • Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. – Helen Keller
  • None of us is as smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard
  • It takes two flints to make a fire. – Louisa May Alcott
  • The value of achievement lies in the achieving. – Albert Einstein
  • If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington
  • Teamwork makes the dream work. – John Maxwell
  • A leader must inspire or his team will expire. – Orrin Woodward
  • If you can laugh together, you can work together. – Robert Orben
  • I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else. – Abby Wambach
  • Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results. – Becka Schoettle
  • If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
  • A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. – Proverb
  • When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. – Unknown
Quote About Tough Teams

Southern Living


  • Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do. – Robert Schuller
  • In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly. – Mark Sanborn
  • We rise by lifting others. – Robert Ingersoll
  • We multiplies the power of I. – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
  • When you hand good people possibility, they do great things. – Biz Stone
  • You are either supporting the vision or supporting division. – Saji Ijiyemi
  • No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. – Althea Gibson
  • A single leaf working alone provides no shade. – Chuck Page


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Motivational Teamwork Quotes

Patrick Lencioni Teamwork Quote

Southern Living


  • Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. – Patrick Lencioni
  • Many hands make light work. –John Heywood
  • To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. – Mike Krzyzewski
  • Efficiency is doing better than what is already being done. – Peter Drucker
  • You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment. – Seth Godin
  • Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. – H.E. Luccock
  • We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end. – Woodrow T. Wilson
  • Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro

Teamwork Quote About Rowing Together

Southern Living


  • A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way. – Swahili Proverb
  • Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. – Amy Poehler
  • I truly believe when we stand together we stand a chance. – Korie Robertson
  • The best way to predict the future is to create it together. – Joe Echevarria
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
  • The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. – Thomas Stallkamp
  • Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. – Emily Kimbrough
  • Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team. – Brian Tracy